U'khand avalanche: 4 labourers die, 50 rescued; search for 5 on

Fifty workers have been pulled out of snow from the site of an avalanche-hit Border Road Organisation camp in the Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, but four of them died on Saturday......

Wildlife cameras installed in Corbett misused to surveil women

Cameras and drones originally planted in Corbett National Park for conservation activities, such as monitoring animals, are being deliberately misused by local government officials and men to......

36 killed as overcrowded bus falls into gorge in Almora

A packed beyond capacity bus carrying passengers returning to work after Diwali fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand's Almora district on Monday, killing at least 36 of the over 60 people on......

Rat miner rejects another house offered in Delhi

Rat-hole miner Wakeel Hassan, who had lost his house in a demolition drive, has rejected another offer of a house in Dilshad Garden in New Delhi by the authorities, he told PTI on Saturday. IMAGE:......

How govt plans to buy med devices cheaply for Ayushman

The idea is to procure essential medical devices such as cardiac stents at a lower cost and put them on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), from where the empanelled hospitals can buy. The central......

Uttarakhand's ban on Maggi to continue for some time

Even as the Karnataka and Gujarat governments have lifted the ban on sale of Maggi noodles, the Uttarakhand government is not in a hurry to lift the ban on production and sale of Maggi noodles.......

How Modi's SVAMITVA scheme aims to help rural property holders

SVAMITVA is a new government project that primarily aims to demarcate abadi areas that includes inhabitant land, inhabited areas contiguous to abadi and wadis/basties in rural areas, using drone......

UP govt notifies land for Rs 16,000 cr Noida's Jewar airport

The airport would comprise two runways and handle 70 million passengers and 3 million tonnes cargo annually when fully developed. IMAGE: A government notification for land acquisition for the......